Monthly Archives: May 2009

WordPress is a popular platform for blogs and I have found there are some “simple” optimizations that have made a huge difference in speed. Although this was written for WordPress, it boosts the speed of all PHP driven web applications, … Continue reading →

I tested several PHP accelerators with lighttpd on an Ubuntu Server, x86_64 architecture. A PHP accelerator is an extension designed to boost the performance of software applications written using the PHP programming language. Most PHP accelerators work by caching the … Continue reading →

This post will cover how to establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) using SSH. This is technically termed “layer-3 IP-in-SSH tunnelling” and is not using ssh to port forward (ssh -L ) or create a dynamic “application level” forwarding (SOCKS) … Continue reading →

I wrote this how to as I was having problems converting a VMware image to KVM. The existing tutorials all suggest using qemu-img to convert the .vmdk, however it was not working as qemu-img only supports VMware 3 and 4 … Continue reading →

As many of you may know I have a rather lengthy post on the Ubuntu Forums “Understanding fstab” located here Another member of the Ubuntu Community, tbuss, has graciously converted this forums post to a pdf. The document looks great … Continue reading →